In Simon Schneider’s Degree of Certainty, knowing the truth and acting on it are two very different things.
Set in 1982, the 16-minute short follows Jackson Miller (Trace Guzmán), a young risk analyst at a major U.S. oil company facing mounting pressure as plunging oil prices cost the corporation millions. Looking for a way to prove his value, Jackson instead discovers troubling research from the company’s own climate scientists projecting a rapid rise in global temperatures. The findings present both the company and Jackson with a choice: confront what the science warns them about, or protect the business built around
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